11 Aug 2023
Stories of Ordinary Medicine: Chief Medical Officer at Twenty-Six, Director at Thirty
"Go to Pelhřimov, see the crematorium, so you know what you're getting into." When Rudolf Hrušínský, as Dr. Skružný in the comedy Vesničko má středisková, gave the advice that became one of the most famous lines in Czech cinema, perhaps only Jiří Lír, who played the innkeeper Bedřich, knew that there was no crematorium in his hometown. However, at the time the film was made, in the mid-1980s, there was already a well-equipped hospital in the district town, which MUDr. Karel Kalla Jr. helped to develop from his position as head of the Clinical Biochemistry Department and later as director. The second of the medical family whose indelible Pelhřimov trace comes from Blansko. It left its imprint not only within the hospital walls and in the structures of the Czech Society of Clinical Biochemistry, of which MUDr. Kalla was the chairman, but also on the football field. And expressed in the name of the Pelhřimov FC, the medical marathon of the Kalla family will continue for some time.
